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Major John André (May 2, 1750 – October 2, 1780) was a British Army officer who served as the head of Britain's intelligence operations during the American War of Independence.
John André (2 de mayo de 1750, Londres, Inglaterra - 2 de octubre de 1780, Tappan, Nueva York, Estados Unidos) fue un espía y oficial del ejército británico. Desde 1774 fue el oficial general de inteligencia del comandante inglés Henry Clinton en Nueva York.
18 de may. de 2024 · John André was a British army officer who negotiated with the American general Benedict Arnold and was executed as a spy during the American Revolution (1775–83). Sent to America in 1774, André became chief intelligence officer to the British commander in chief, General Sir Henry Clinton, in New.
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John André was born in London, England, on May 2, 1750. By 1771, André had joined the British Army and was sent to serve in Canada in 1774. In November 1778, André was promoted to major and named adjutant general by General Henry Clinton, the British commander-in-chief.
While Benedict Arnold is the best-known traitor in American history and lived, Arnold’s British confidant and accomplice in the plot to turn the American garrison at West Point over to the British, Major John André was not so fortunate.
John André: Officer, Gentleman…and Spymaster. John André was fluent in four languages and a gifted writer and poet. At the age of nineteen, he inherited his father’s fortune, and two years later bought a military commission as a lieutenant in the British Army.
John Andre esqr. late Adjutant General of the British forces in America. from Walker's Hibernian magazine, 1780. LOC id: cph 3a45405. John Andre -- handsome, artistic, beloved by the Loyalists, admired by Washington ... a spy brave and cunning ... convinced Benedict Arnold to sell out West Point ... hanged at age 31.
